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Numbers 35:11
Numbers 35:11 is verse 11 of Numbers chapter 35, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
King James Version
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
World English Bible
then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
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Numbers 35:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible
9 Then the LORD said to Moses,
10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11 designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
12 You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
13 The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 35:6Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
Joshua 20:2“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
Numbers 35:22But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
Numbers 35:23or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,
Exodus 21:13If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
Deuteronomy 4:42to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
Deuteronomy 19:4Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:
Deuteronomy 19:5If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.